The camera obscura may be the most original and obvious device to realise the transformation between reality and image. The image of light is at the same time the source of light In this experiment, which is aimed at interpreting the concepts of light and image. In this ontological system the subject of the picture is the light bulb, whose own light serves to present itself. The concept of self-image is based on the logical idea that the image of light also needs light to reveal itself. This is the simultaneous coincidence of the source of the light and the image of the light.

The picture of light is made in the dark. Without light there is no visual manifestation, and without darkness there is no picture. Light both shines and transmits. The photograph manifests the duality of a binary reference. Like light itself: where there is light, there must also be shadow. A picture written with light as its medium fundamentally mediates the experience of reality, and through this makes our existence visible. However, the photograph did not become the authentic image of reality but rather the aesthetics of light.

Barnabás Bencsik